Pinging is successful for unassigned DHCP #'s

[rsvp]

Hi,
This sounds wierd. I'm able to ping every subnet ip at work (10.1.1.0)> This is the LAN IP at work. Here I am at home, not connected to the office, but I'm still getting replies for every IP on that range. We just have 15 computers connected at work and I pinged random LAN addresses and I still get a response?????
help.

 

[GlenJohnson]

Are you pinging by name or ip? Could make a big difference. Also, do you have a firewall at work?

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[BigShyBear]

This is NOT normal.
Try pinging a number of ip addresses, then open up a dos box and do an 'arp -a'. See if the physical address - the MAC address - is the same. Do an 'ipconfig /all' on the computer and look at the MAC address of the computer and compare it with the MAC addresses returned in the 'arp -a'.
If you are doing this from the same laptop both at home and work then try pinging from a different computer.

You have a device that is responding for all pings. If this is from the same laptop it may be software on the laptop.